As a parsimonious (means cheap bastage) person who is a returning skier that now had a family, wife and 2 out of 3 spawn, to outfit. Now going in I knew some would use the equipment and advance, others would be at best once or twice a year.
Goggles, opticsplanet.com I got Bolle for under 15 bucks. I upgraded mine later to Spy from L9 that were on sale
https://www.levelninesports.com/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Finch levelninesports.com US&utm_term=level 9 sports&utm_content=[level 9 sports]
Boots, for the wife and I it was a trip to the bootfitter paying retail all the way. The daughter spawn is hard charging in theory. Got a set of hardly used hand me downs from a buddys wife. Son, go a set of hand me downs, but he took to it. He is also a clyde so we are headed to the bootfitter this summer.
http://www.peakskiandboard.com/
Clothing. Mountain Warehouse.
https://www.mountainwarehouse.com/us/ There is a outlet near here and I had a job to work there. I walked out with a set of water proof ski pants. Wife and kids went up and got geared up. I stopped in before I went to Okemo looking for a lighter fleece 1/3 zip pullover. I found a fleece jacket for 7 bucks.
Gloves. I dont get to go cheap here. I have paws and XL isnt always XL. I went to LL Bean
https://www.llbean.com/ and got Kombi's. Mt warehouse and even Colombia sportswear outlets are good on price.
Skis. Level 9 sports and Colorado discount skis
http://coloradodiscountskis.com/ for new old stock. Liquidation sportshttp://
www.liquidationsports.com/ for used get you by stuff.
After getting boots the wife and I rented skis at the same shop for a year to see if we could still do this.
After a year on the rentals I got a set of Elan Amphibio 88's for 400 delivered, L9 sports. The were recommended over on Epic as a east coast clyde ski, and going from rentals to these it wasnt yeah, it was HELL YEAH. They made me look good.
The wife is no longer a hard charger and light intermediate at best so she got some Elan Waveflex from L9
I got the kids some decent used stuff from Liquidation sports. The daughter is doing fine on hers, but she doesnt go much. The son was there every time and is a solid light intermediate now. I was and he is at the point where he was doing what I do with generic rental type skis. Over driving in every turn so he cant find the top end to improve. He is also a Clyde at 6'2" 245. So I looked and found a set of Elan Amphibo 2013-4 82xti @182cm from Colorado Discount Skis